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Friday, May 08, 2015

To Mike Pompeo—we call it imperialism, not liberty or freedom

by Otto

US Representative Mike Pompeo (R) is probably the most
pro-imperialism representative I have ever lived under. He supports everything
from NSA spying on US citizens to sending combat troops into Iraq and Syria.

A few times a month I
get a newsletter from Pompeo and about half of them are about his relationship
with veterans. He is always bragging about the support he gives to vets. In the
latest letter he brags about his support of an “appropriations bill”[1]
that provides increased benefits for veterans. I don’t oppose spending money on
veterans because they have been doing all the dirty work in foreign affairs and
they are the ones who lose limbs are lost and they suffer physical and mental
damage defending the property and investments of our conservatives.

“I understand the dedication and sacrifice it takes to
defend our freedom,”Pompeo said in his recent newsletter. But
does he really know what it is like to serve in times of war? Pompeo has
attended the U.S. Military Academy and he has
served sometime in the military. But, he has not actually been in a battle. It
is easier to support the military from behind the front lines supporting
appropriation bills and military spending, but the vets are the people who
actually get down in the trenches and do all the fighting. That means they take
all the risks and politicians such as Pompeo like to chum around with them,
without having to go into battle and risk getting hurt.

Again in his newsletter:

“That is why it is a special
privilege for me to spend time with Kansas veterans. Last week I met
members of Kansas Honor Flight No. 24 at the Wichita Eisenhower airport as they
departed on their trip and again when they visited the Vietnam Memorial in
Washington, DC. Kansas Honor Flightarranges these
experiences and sends our veterans to Washington to visit their own war
memorial. These memorials exist to proclaim that the liberties we enjoy
today were earned through the bravery and sacrifice of many patriotic American
soldiers. It is always such a blessing to meet these heroes. And
great fun.”

While this may be great fun for the representative, he is
not the one making all the “sacrifice” and “bravery” for the so called
“liberties we enjoy today.” And just what “liberties” are they sent to defend?

One of the biggest lies perpetuated by our political
establishment today is that “our military is fighting for our freedoms.”
They “defend
us while we sleep at night.” “They defend the liberties that we take for
granted” But this is all BULL SHIT!

The real prize there is oil. With the US in control of Iraq,
it also controls the oil shipping through that part of the world. Major oil
fields are under US control now. There are other resources and advantages in
the middle-east as well. In Iraq there are minerals and
natural gas.

People in America do not have the freedom to decide what
kinds of chemicals we can put in our bodies; as we can be arrested for
possessing small amounts of drugs. Outspoken people risk being the victims of
smear campaigns by organizations or “think tanks” owned by wealthy persons such
as the Koch brothers.

Then there are those god-like powers a country hungers for.
They produce such actions as regime change and nation building. This is all a
part of the process called imperialism. We strive to build a massive empire
where the nations under our control are like our back yard. The land may have
people living in it, but we feel as if that land is really ours. We treat the
people as if they are our children, who need our wise guidance.

Imperialism is the real aim of our military today. We aren’t
fighting any wars here at home, with the exception of a few acts of terrorism.

There have been some risks of terrorist actions, but they
can be traced to our involvement in the middle-east. Despite all the warnings
that ISIS wants to attack us here at home, only one such attack has taken place
since 9/11. In reality the fight is in areas in and around Iraq and Syria not
the US. ISIS took over parts of Iraq months ago with an ambitious plan to annex
most of that country. The US has invested heavily in a puppet government set up
to imitate the “democracy” of the US.

Pompeo is nothing more than a stooge for the US military
industrial complex. We need to let him know we are not fooled by his adoration
of the military. This is about imperialism and not about liberty or freedom.

[1] In
total, the legislation provides $76.6 billion in discretionary
funding – $4.6 billion above the fiscal year
2015 level. This represents a 5.6 percent increase over the fiscal
year 2015 level for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) –
including increases for health care, benefit claims processing, the
Board of Veterans Appeals, medical
and prosthetic research, and information technology.

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